The eBible Corpus: Data and Model Benchmarks for Bible Translation for Low-Resource Languages

Understand

Efficiently and accurately translating a corpus into a low-resource language remains a challenge, regardless of the strategies employed, whether manual, automated, or a combination of the two.

• Many Christian organizations are dedicated to the task of translating the Holy Bible into languages that lack a modern translation.
• Bible translation (BT) work is currently underway for over 3000 extremely low resource languages.
• We introduce the eBible corpus: a dataset containing 1009 translations of portions of the Bible with data in 833 different languages across 75 language families.